The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 8 December 2023

Air Date: 
December 07, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

1/2: #Ukraine: Zelensky at odds with Washington and Kyiv. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2023/12/07/senate-republicans-block-ukraine-israel-funding-package/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2023/12/07/senate-republicans-block-ukraine-israel-funding-package/

915-930

2/2: #Ukraine: Zelensky at odds with Washington and Kyiv. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2023/12/07/senate-republicans-block-ukraine-israel-funding-package/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2023/12/07/senate-republicans-block-ukraine-israel-funding-package/

930-945
#PRC: Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo bluntly recounts the China industrial threat & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, Scala.com, #Stratacache.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dark-gina-elicits-blistering-rebuke-china-vows-circumvent-tech-curbs

945-1000

#CANADA: Confounding "woke" language from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada & What is to be done? Conrad Black, National Post.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-physicians-college-embraces-social-justice-lunacy

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

Dr. Joseph Humire. Dr. Humire is the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society. Joseph M. Humire is a foreign policy and national security expert, analyzing Transregional Threat Networks in the Western Hemisphere.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67470549
https://www.heritage.org/americas/commentary/argentinas-javier-milei-not-danger-democracy
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/story-on-argentina-president-elect-converting-to-judaism-walked-back/
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-776515
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/ecuadors-2023-election-what-noboas-victory-means
 

1015-1030

Hussain Abdul Hussain- Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at FDD. He focuses on the Gulf region and Yemen, including on Gulf relations with Iran and Gulf peace with Israel. Born and raised in Beirut, Baghdad and Baalbek, cities that have been the theater of major Middle Eastern events, Hussain earned a degree in History and Archeology from the American University of Beirut, after which he worked as a reporter, and later managing editor, at Beirut’s The Daily Star. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
https://www.foxnews.com/world/biden-admin-should-look-at-abraham-accords-type-initiative-when-hamas-terror-regime-is-defeated
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/blinken-forecasts-tough-choices-israel-victory-hamas#
 
 

1030-1045
 Moshe Lavi- Moshe Lavi’s sister Lishay and brother in law Omri Miran lived in Kibbutz Nahal Oz. His brother in law, Omri Miran, was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7th and is currently being held hostage in Gaza.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/opinion/hostages-israel-war.html
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/liverpool-ejected-israeli-fan-for-holding-up-banner-of-friend-kidnapped-by-hamas-kp7db4tc
 
 
1045-1100

#Antisemitism: Three elite university presidents fail to satisfy Congressional questioning of conduct on their campuses & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/us/donors-and-alumni-demand-that-penns-president-resign-over-remarks-at-hearing.html

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/2: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela threatens to annex most of tiny Guyana: bluff or Little Green Men? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/what-is-border-dispute-between-venezuela-guyana-2023-12-06/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-maduro-push-oil-exploration-disputed-territory-2023-12-06/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-sees-no-risk-armed-conflict-between-guyana-venezuela-minister-2023-12-06/

1115-1130

1/2: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela threatens to annex most of tiny Guyana: bluff or Little Green Men? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/what-is-border-dispute-between-venezuela-guyana-2023-12-06/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-maduro-push-oil-exploration-disputed-territory-2023-12-06/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-sees-no-risk-armed-conflict-between-guyana-venezuela-minister-2023-12-06/

1130-1145

#NewWorldReport: President-Elect Milei reassures the markets. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllishttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67470549

1145-1200
#NewWorldReport: Panama bad luck in multiple crises in a drought.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panama-says-president-cortizo-still-remission-rare-blood-disorder-2023-12-06/

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#Iran: Cliff May writes the speech POTUS can make to the nation in order to rein in Tehran predation. Cliff May, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/12/06/the-speech-biden-should-make-now/

1215-1230

#MrMarket: How to pay for the highways with maximum EVs and minimum to none gasoline taxes?? Veronique deRugy
https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/12/23/what-should-happen-when-fuel-efficient-vehicles-take-over-the-roads

1230-1245

#SCOTUS:  The Federalist Society of debaters stands accused of villainy and worse. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. 

https://www.hoover.org/research/unfair-swipe-federalist-society

1245-100 am

#Obamacare: Another Republican try to repeal.  Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-s-why-it-would-be-even-harder-now-to-kill-obamacare/ar-AA1l8SfU